1. كَأَنِّي وَلَيلى لَم يَكُن حَلَّ أَهلُنا

    بِوادٍ خَصيبٍ وَالسلامُ رِطابُ

    As though our people—Layla’s and mine—had never settled

    in a fertile valley, with the acacias green and tender.